Does the cannon's ammo explodes when they are hit ?

[MD_Titus]

Originally Posted by deadmeat313

There was one old LW pilot they got to have a go of IL-2 Sturmovik. They interviewed him on the old IL2 forum while he was flying a FW-190. When a Spitfire got behind him he started firing his cannons off into nowhere.

The guys asked him what he was doing and he said something along the lines of "No good getting hit with all these bombs inside the wings."

That is the only place where I've read of this taking place.

DM

considering the gun cam footage of lots of 190's wings snapping off just at the point where a large tin of 20mm would be, i can see the logic. also recall seeing the schematic for the armour around ammo bays for the wingmounted mk108s.

[brando]

On the bomb topic, I was once passing under a squad-mate's Sturmovik when he released a heap of those bomblets used against soft targets, and watched as a few impacted my wing - and blew it right off! I went down like a corkscrew.

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by brando

On the bomb topic, I was once passing under a squad-mate's Sturmovik when he released a heap of those bomblets used against soft targets, and watched as a few impacted my wing - and blew it right off! I went down like a corkscrew.

yeap. we did this once with b25 bomblets, took us a few tries, since we were going for an intruder in the server XD

[SIDWULF]

Makes perfect sense i recall seeing a video of an allied plane shooting down a FW-190 in a hard banked turn and right where the cannon ammo would be stored is where the wing exploded and was torn off.